Rodman Has Message From North Korea

American basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman said Sunday that North Korean nuclear bad boy Kim Jong Eun wants to talk one-on-one with U.S. President Barack Obama.

In his first television interview since his freelance hoops diplomacy visit to North Korea last week, Mr. Rodman said of Mr. Kim, “He wants Obama to do one thing: Call him…He said, ‘If you can, Dennis – I don’t want [to] do war. I don’t want to do war.’ He said that to me.”

Mr. Rodman said he spent two days with the elusive North Korean leader, probably making the former National Basketball Association star the American with the most face time with Mr. Kim, whose grandfather and father ruled the isolated country before him. They watched basketball and ice skating together, and visited an aquarium.

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